Combined tool



(No Model.)

0. H. TACK. COMBINED TOOL.

No. 418,085. Patented Dec. 24, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR H. TACK, OF STEVENS POINT, VVISOONSIN.

COMBINED TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,085, dated December24, 1889.

Application filed June 14, 1889. $erial No. 314,222. (-No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be I it known that I, OSCAR H. TACK, of Stevens Point, in the county ofPortage and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful CombinedTool; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of said invention, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my complete device. Fig.2 is a view ofa portion of the handle of my combined tool in connection with a tackdriven through a carpet into a board or wooden floor, showing the mannerof starting the nail from its seat. Fig. 3 is a portion of the handle ofthe combined tool, showing the method of drawing the nail or tack fromits seat after it has been started in the manner shown in Fig. 2.

In the drawings, A is the head of the combined tool, having a face 13,adapted for giving blows upon anail or tack to drive it into a yieldingmaterial and having at the other end a thin fiat straight edge 0. Thishead A is provided with a handle D, inserted in the head A, the outerextremity of which handle near its end is made quite thick laterally atE and tapers abruptly laterally to a sharp straight edge F at the end.The taper from E to F is nearly all on one side of the handle and formsthe incline G. Near the end F of the handle there is a transverse recessH in one side of the handle, which recess is of a sufficient size and isadapted to receive therein the shank of a nail or tack in the mannershown in Fig. 3. The sharp straight edge F is of considerable width, andthereby is adapted to be thrust under the head of a nail or tack I inthe manner shown in Fig. 2, even when the nail is driven quite firmlyinto the wood K, and even when the head is in close contact with thewood, and being of this considerable width will remain under the head,not sliding to either side while the tack or nail is started from itsseat by bearing down on the other end of the handle, using the rear endof the incline G at the point E as a fulcrum; and when the tack has beensufficiently raised in this manner to permit the handle to be insertedunder the head of the tack, with the shank of the tack in the recess H,it can then be surely and certainly withdrawn in the manner shown inFig. 3, without danger of tilting the tack or nail over, as would occurif it were attempted to draw the tack entirely out of the wood bycontactwith the end F.

This combined tool is especially adapted for use as a tack-hainmer andtack-drawer, as the face B of the head can be used in almost allcircumstances for driving the tack, and the thin flat straight edge 0can be used for driving a tack in the very corner of a room or in anarrow place where it would be impossible to use the face B, While theouter end of the handle is peculiarly adapted for drawing tacks in themanner herein before described.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A combined tool consisting of the head A, having a face B and a thinstraight edge 0, and the handle D, having a laterally-thickened part E,an abrupt lateral incline G, a sharp straight edge F, and a recess H atthe side of the incline G, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OSCAR H. TACK.

Witnesses:

W. B. BUCKINGHAM, J W. FUNEGAN.

